Wireless is hard blocked on Asus x75a can't unblock!

Wireless is hard blocked on Asus x75a can't unblock!

I have an Asus x75a laptop on which I have recently installed Ubuntu 13.04
alongside Windows 8. I everything seems to be running smoothly except for
the fact that I can't get the Wi-Fi to work! When I click in the Wi-Fi
widget in the upper right-hand corner of the desktop, Wi-Fi is greyed out
and says that it is disabled by hardware switch. This is odd because my
computer model doesn't HAVE a hardware switch for wireless; it's turned
off and on by the Fn+F2 combination in Windows, but that doesn't seem to
be working here. I don't have any Ethernet or anything else besides
wireless to hook up to so it's a real problem.
I am extremely new to Linux, and I haven't found any good answers for this
problem online.
My computer has an internal Quallcom Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter.
Here's what I get when I run rfkill list:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes 1: asus-wlan:
Wireless LAN: Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
I have tried both rfkill unblock all and rfkill unblock 0, both to no avail.
When I go into the settings app and click on network, I see the word
Wireless next to a virtual switch in the off position, but when I flip it
to on it immediately flips back to off.
It's not a problem with the Wireless adapter cuz it works fine in Windows.
It makes no difference whether it's on our off when I exit Windows.
Yes, wireless is enabled in the BIOS (or UEFI, our whatever it's callled
nowadays...)
When I installed Ubuntu, I did not connect to the internet during
installation cuz the only network I have at home is only for wireless
printing etc and no internet so I figured it was useless to connect it to
a dead network. So when I realized that I had this problem, I figured I
should try reinstalling Ubuntu WITH it connected to my dead network to see
if that would get the Wireless working. But when I went to connect to a
network in the reinstallation process, I realized it didn't list my
network at all, but rather listed my ATHEROS AR9485 WIRELESS NETWORK
ADAPTER as an available "network"! But I couldn't connect to this
"network" cuz it insisted I needed a password, which I thought was weird.
Network Adapter don't have password do they? I've never found anything
saying mine has one and I've never created one for that matter. So I
realized it was pointless and cancelled the reinstallation.
That's all the background info I can think of to provide you at the moment.
please help!!!!!!
Thanks!!!!